Do mandatory minimum sentences work?

Titled "Taking Back Our State", their plan would give violent criminals convicted of a subsequent violent offence a minimum sentence of at least six years. The minimum for murder would go from zero to 20 years. The rape minimum would go from zero to 15 years.

Eight of the 11 offences listed don't have mandatory minimums in normal circumstances. Those that do - one-punch manslaughter (10 years), aggravated home invasion and aggravated car-jacking (both three years) - would increase substantially.

WHY NOW?

The plan comes at a time when the crime rate per capita rose by 21 per cent between 2012 and 2016.

"We need to put the victims first, rather than last, like the system does," Mr Guy says.